You can also get a good deal if you switch price tags on items you purchase at the store, substituting a higher price tag for a lower one.
You can get an even better deal if you covertly hide the item in a bag or under a jacket, thus eliminating the need to pay at all.
One of my friends does something similar - when shopping for costumes and stuff at Value Village, he switches the coloured stickers so he buys the stuff for super cheap. Pretty greasy.
So many stores got rid of their self-checkouts because of people like her. One of easiest way to shoplift is through the self-checkouts.
You can hide items, overload the scale with heavy items to mask lighter items, not declare items, swap/switch items, distract the attendant, etc.
It's too bad, I used to use the Wal-Mart self-checkout late at night to get rid of all my spare change until they got rid of the self-checkout because it was their biggest point of loss.
Perhaps I should go to the bulk foods section and fill up a bag full of Bernard Callebaut chocolate slabs and write down the code for "flour". My luck, I'd probably be the first person to get busted doing it. haha
You can't really do anything about these things, it just happens. We had this one vietnamese Chinese Lady who would take Beef Tenderloin and cut them into Stew and than price them up as Stewing Beef.
She got away with it a few more times, until our assistant lead busted her doing it, she ended up just getting a stern talking too and nothing else.
The bad thing about Costco, after 3 months, you can't get fired unless you do something really stupid like kill somebody... haha.. All you get is a counseling notice or write ups or just get an earful.
While theft in and of itself is reprehensible, what disgusts me about this case is the meek, tepid, pansified, down right flaccid malfeasance of the individual in question. It's one thing to be a larcenous scumbag, but do you really have to add a dimension of weasel and wimpiness on top?
For god's sake, if you are going to steal something, just outright steal it. You're not earning karma offset credits by electing to self-price the product at something other than zero, and the cowardice demonstrated says more about her character than the questionable morality of the action itself.
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You can't really do anything about these things, it just happens. We had this one vietnamese Chinese Lady who would take Beef Tenderloin and cut them into Stew and than price them up as Stewing Beef.
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